Hersey – Page 2 – The Suffolk Sky

06/18/2024 – The Black Eye Galaxy

June 19, 2024 by Hersey

Mostly clear, highs in the upper 60s, and a light breeze. A nice night even with a very bright 91% Waxing Full Moon. Despite the Moon I really wanted to capture some light. 06/19 is a holiday, so I could stay up…

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06/18/2024 – SeeStar EAA – All kinds of great stuff…

June 19, 2024 by Hersey

Nice mostly clear night, but a very bright Moon. Just a few high thin clouds here and there. Temperatures were mild, in the upper 60s, with a slight breeze. Since tomorrow is a holiday stayed up a little late and had a…

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06/17/2024 – SeeStar EAA – Ring, Crescent, Veil

June 18, 2024 by Hersey

Of course if we are going to have a nice clear night it has to have a very bright Moon. Waxing Full Moon about 86% full. Clear skies, maybe a few thin clouds with the temperature in the upper 70s with a…

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Learning NINA – Weather Data from OpenWeatherMap

June 17, 2024 by Hersey

It is helpful to have current weather information during an observing session. I typically record the current temperature, humidity, and cloud cover in my observation session logs. Weather data can be obtained from a few different sources. In this post I am…

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06/07/2024 – Eyes of Frustration

June 8, 2024 by Hersey

The forecast for the night was not great, but it was fairly clear just before dark. The temperature was in the mid-70s and the humidity was not quite as bad as it has been. I uncovered the scope hoping to capture a…

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Very Neat Python Opensource Star Charting…

June 7, 2024 by Hersey

I was browsing the CloudyNights Astronomy Software & Computers forum and ran across this post about an interesting python script which generates sky charts. fchart3 is an opensource Python script to make beautiful Deep Sky finder charts and star maps in various…

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It’s Gonna Blow! T Coronae Borealis Nova Coming Soon… Maybe?

June 4, 2024 by Hersey

If you are into space or amateur astronomy you have probably heard news or seen some discussion of the impending nova of T Coronae Borealis, aka T CrB, aka HIP 78322, aka the “Blaze Star”. T Coronae Borealis is a recurrent nova…

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RaspAstro Web – Working with pyEphem Sun and Moon Info

June 3, 2024 by Hersey

I have been doing a bit of tinkering with my RaspAstro Web application. I added two new pages one dedicated to the Sun and one dedicated to the Moon. The RaspAstro Web is a web application written in Python which uses pyEphem…

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Learning NINA – The Advanced Sequencer

June 2, 2024 by Hersey

First light and a chance to test out my sequence using the NINA mini-pc build sequencer on 5/31/2024 shooting M 94, the Cat’s Eye Galaxy. The NINA sequencer is somewhat complicated but extremely versatile. There really is a lot to this astrophotography…

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05/31/2024 – M 94, The Cat’s Eye Galaxy

June 1, 2024 by Hersey

Very nice clear night with no Moon and temperatures in the upper-to-mid 50s F. This was my first night out using NINA to control the gear and the imaging sequence. It was also the first night out after tuning up the EQ6-R…

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